hi @a1johnsa, there’s no way to host podcast where you can see a live “chat”; however, waht perhaps could be done is hosting the podcast elsewhere and still uploading it to Docebo afterwards - not inside of a course, but rather in one of the channels if you have the Coach & Share product from Docebo.

That way, it is optional and can be accessed by anyone. If someone is not interested, it won’t show up in their “my courses” section, which is good for their user experience. Using Coach & Share, your users will still be able to have a little discussion below the video player with the podcast and will be able to use Q&A to ask further questions to the hosts, to which they can reply via text or during a follow-up podcast.

Sorry I couldn’t help more. Although I think it’s a good alternative, I know it’s not ideal.

What we did is use Microsoft Teams (could also use Zoom) and recorded a meeting, podcast style. We called it “Listen & Learn” and made a single slide with that title, the date, theme and hosts and that’s the image that was recorded during the virtual “meeting.” At the beginning we reminded everyone that this was a “listen only” format and that they could minimize their screen to listen in the background or use the Go Learn app on their mobile device.

When complete, we saved the recording as an mp4 file and then uploaded it to our “Listen & Learn” channel.

Hello @a1johnsa!

We use Podbean to host our podcast, and then use the embeddable HTML player.

We can’t track any kind of completions in the LMS itself, however.

Otherwise you may want to use Camtasia (or another video editing app), use your podcast thumbnail as the background image, and load the mp3 into a video you can export into mp4 format.  You can simply then upload the MP4 to Docebo as training material.  Camtasia is inexpensive ($250), and easy to use.  https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia-pricing.html 

@DustinSmith this is great!  Did you upload the .mp4 into training content as a file, or something else?  I’m having some trouble making that work.

@Kristen R - you would want to use the Training Material Video type to upload an .mp4.  We do this all the time and have good success with it.  Your video file must fit within the file criteria for the Video upload, though, or it might be possible you’d have to split it into parts to make the file smaller.  I regularly upload hour long videos.

@trose23 I tried uploading an .mp3 file as a video.  It works great on the desktop version but not on the mobile app.  Then I tried uploading a .mp4 - and it does not work at all.  The file is small - 338KB.  Any thoughts?

Kristen - can I ask - did you put the mp3 file through a file conversion tool to make it into a video? Or did you change the extension? So that it has the expected attributes that a video has? mp4 will treat you better on a mobile app. But video can be finicky on mobile apps as they count on a few things to work in elearning. Not all videos trigger an autoplay in mobile browsers for example.

@dklinger I later ran it through a conversion too (m4a to mp4) and now it works perfectly!  Thank you.

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